It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at the meeting of two heavenward lines, one drawn from Bethany along the Ascent of the Messias, the other from Jerusalem against the Descent of the Paraclete. That measurement, the measurement of eternity in operation, of the bright cloud and the rushing wind, is, in effect, theology.

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.